Improvement in bee- hives



f 'STAREs PATENT 'OFFICE.,

vLEONARD KENNEDY, oF HABTORD, eoNNeoricUr.

* IMP'RQVEMENT Specilieatjon forming part of Letters Patent No.- 4'lf5i3, dated February El, 1864',

To" allA whom it 1n/ay concern. v Beit known that'I, LEONARD KENNEDY', of Hartford, in the county'of Hartford and State of Connecticut, havelinvented a new and Improved Bee-"'Bw; and I vdo hereby declare` that the following is a full, clea'',and exact description of-the sanie, reference. being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making apart :of this specification, 'in which-"- Figurefl 'is a verticalsection of my inven-f vertical section of the-same, taken in the line' the removablestrip in which the bee-entranees are made."j

Simila-r'letters of reference indicate corre; spondingparts-inthe severaliigures. v 1

yme f thgconihfframesof'thehives, ashe'rel '.inafteifnfully liownxandidescribed whereby ".whichfthey v majff be placed, "and jtlie frames rendered capable of Ibeing removed `fromthe 'fliive when necessaryFwithont:annoying or ex. asperating the-'bees,"the framesbeinggalso cfa- .pable Vof "being adjusted at al'greater -.or ,-less" distance apart, as" occasion :may require, 'and with `the lgreatest facility, fand the frameset the same time'whenadjusted `in thedes'ired "position heldthereinfin a secure manner, so as to'effectually avoid casual displacement.4

The invention alsorelates to a'novelandf' improved means for obtaining bee-entrances of; diierent capacities, as, hereinafterl fully shown anddescribed, wherebyth e' use' of slides,

' which possess sorn'e'idisadvantages is avoided.

1 To enable those Skilled in the'art to -fully understand and'construct'myinvenSion, I will preceeding):describeit.V

represe'nts a, squareor rectangular box, VWhi ch' fofrrns thelb'ody of 2thehive, and B isa horizontal board vplwed"thereon,. whichv forms theremay be. placed ,a box, Cp'toreceive the sparehoney boxes-'lopening'sa being; made in ff -.as shown clearly'in Fig.`2.

` v their lower endsby a c1iss-har,` d', Thesde pieces or bars, c c, extend down atrifle below. "the `lower ;cross bar, d', and then vvare chamfered at two opposite sides, so as to-forni nar-'J row edges 'e to rest on thev bottom f of the-hive,"

tween, the comb-frames when the latter'are -adjusted'in the hive,.the screws of'one frame' bearing against 'the side pieces of v the adjoin'#y ing one,l as shown clearly in Fig. 2. The space between the eo1nb`:frames, i t willA be seen,- mayl Ybev regulated-as'desired by screwing the screws g a greater or'jlessfdistanceinto theside pieces, y j; YLillii sSi.agentian relatestoa peculiar arrange# 'Winnie matite-A, 'at pn@ Side prit, 'there fis inserted a'. slide; E, thel length of which' is to fthe. 'internat Width o r depth-Hof the* hive; 'lhis slide hasjtwo strips, h h, a`ttached' verticallyzto it, one neareachend, and vin line with the side pieces, c c, ofthe c'omlaframes,

the screws g o'f the adjoining coinbframe beai ingv against the strips h h.'

`This. slidev and strips, it Will beseen, serve 'asa key, to retain the combframes in proper position within the hive, and strips h h, of greater or-less thickness, may bev used to suit the" adjustment of the 'comb-framesf If. the latter are placed quite near together, the strips h will of course require to be thicker than they would were the comb-frames placed at a conjsiderabledistance apart. The strips h h may be readily` attached to anddetached from the vslide E, theformer latter.

- a Byhaving--thecomb-frames thus arranged it will beseen that they may be readily removed .from the hive and without annoying or'exasperatiug the bees', all that is required.

to e''ectthis-being simplywithdrawing the slide-E. [In consequence of having the klower ends of fthe side pieces, c c.v of the comb-frames chanifered, as shown and described, a very would be experienced in detaching them, and

thebees consequently annoyed -and1.rendered irascible."

The front side of the hive' at its lower end L' The comb-'frames are somewhat lessin width than the box'A, and the .side pieces, c 'cfof' the comb-frames have each two screws, "gv y, inf

them, which Aserve to regulate the distance bei.:

being simply tacked t0y the does not extend quite down. to the bottom f of the hive, a space being allowed to receive a strip, F, which has an oblong opening. t', madein it to serve as a bee-entrance. (See more particularly Fig. 3.)` Several strips, F,

, may be kept on hand, having openings i of different dimensions, so that anyone of the `strips may be fitted in or underneath the lower end of the front side of the hive and a beeentranee of greater or less dimensions, as desired, obtainedat any. time.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i's- 1.',The airangenient'of the adjusting-screws g upon the sides of the comb-frames as herein shown and described, so as to regulate the space between the frames' at pleasure.

2. The arrangementl of the entrance-strips F with the hivezfront in the manner herein shown and described.

LEONARD KENNEDY;

Witnesses: Y

f A; S. KENNEDY, T. SMITH. 

